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Learning from a century of planning politics -- Planning politics -- On wedges and corridors -- Retrofitting suburbia -- The death and life of Silver Spring -- The end of suburbia? -- Trials in corridor city planning -- Errors in corridor city planning -- The agricultural reserve -- Growth pains and policy -- The public interest -- The importance of planning and politics

Over a decade after national independence, it is apparent that the contrasting development strategies adopted by the five new governments of Central Asia have led to significantly different outcomes. This well-written and timely book analyses how the development strategies of these countries have affected their transition from communist governance

Intro -- Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft -- Die Lokalisierung von Schneisen im Dickicht - Konzeptionelle Grundlegungen und empirische Befunde informaler Governance -- 1 Grundverständnis Governance -- 2 Politische Institutionen als Fokus der Analyse von informaler Governance -- 3 Charakteristik formaler und informaler Institutionen -- 4 Informales Regieren als analytischer Begriff -- 5 Bestimmungsfaktoren formalen und informalen Regierens -- 6 Formung formaler Regelungsstrukturen durch informale Governance: Strukturierung der Wirkungsbeziehungen -- 7 Strukturierung der empirischen Befunde -- 8 Empirische Befunde der Fallstudien: eine tentative komparative Auswertung -- 9 Fazit und Forschungsperspektiven -- Literatur -- Media Governance im interregionalen Vergleich - Informelle Regulierung in Italien und Mexiko -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Media Governance als informelle Regulierung -- 3 Medienpluralismus als Regulierungsziel -- 4 Mexiko und Italien: Fallauswahl -- 5 Media Governance in Italien -- 6 Media Governance in Mexiko -- 7 Diskussion -- Literatur -- Hierarchie und Netzwerk-Governance in russischen Regionen -- 1 Problemaufriss: Governance im Mantel semi-autoritärer Staatlichkeit -- 2 Governance als heuristischer Zugang zu Entscheidungsprozessen in Russland -- 3 Fallauswahl und Untersuchungsdesign -- 4 Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung in russischen Regionen: Rechtsbefolgung, Regelverletzungen und Nachverhandlungen -- 5 Ethnische Konfliktregulierung in russischen Regionen: Imitation vonNetzwerken und horizontale Governance -- 6 Schlussfolgerungen: Fragile Netzwerk-Governance -- Anhang -- 1. Umweltpolitik -- 2. Ethnische Kon -- Literatur -- Europäische Finanzmarktpolitik in der Krise -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Umrisse einer integralen Analyseperspektive -- 3 Die institutionell-regulative Gestaltung des europäischen Finanzmarktkapitalismus.

To what extent is business activity governed at a European scale? Since the advent of the recent economic crisis, the EU's choices about the euro, debt ratios and interest rates have caught the headlines and highlighted the importance of EU decision-making arenas. However, these macro-economic events actually tell us only part of the story about the extent to which business activity is now governed at a European scale. Based upon original research on four manufactured or processed goods industries (cars, wine, pharmaceuticals and aquaculture), and driven by theory that is cons.

Malaysia, home to some 20 million Muslims, is often held up as a model of a pro-Western Islamic nation. The government of Malaysia, in search of Western investment, does its best to perpetuate this view. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the growing role of Islam in the last quarter century of Malaysian politics

This book takes stock of Belgium's exceptional and – for some foreign observers –schizophrenic position in the political world and explains its idiosyncrasy to a non-Belgian audience. Offering a broad and comprehensive analysis of Belgian politics, the guiding questions throughout each of the chapters of this book are: Is Belgium a political enigma, and why? Along which axes is Belgium "exceptional" compared to other countries? And what insights does a comparative study of Belgian politics have to offer? The book therefore provides a critical assessment of how Belgian politics "stands out" internationally, both in good and bad ways – including consociationalism, federalism, democratic innovations, Euroscepticism, government formation, gender equality, among others – and which factors can explain Belgium's exceptional position. Based on cutting-edge research findings, the book will be of wide interest to scholars and students of Belgian politics, European Politics and Comparative politics.

In the early post-Soviet period, Ukraine appeared to be firmly on the path to democracy. But the Kuchma presidency was clouded by dark rumors of corruption and even political murder, and, by 2004, the country was in full-blown political crisis. This book looks beyond these dramatic events and aims to identify the actual play of power in Ukraine.